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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting use vimdiff inside while read Post 302586026 by tinivt on Friday 30th of December 2011 02:34:54 AM
Old 12-30-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
Try this:

Code:
while IFS= read -r; do
  diff src/"$REPLY" dest/"$REPLY" || ( 
    exec 0< /dev/tty
    vimdiff src/"$REPLY" dest/"$REPLY" 
    )
done < infile

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could anyone please explain how this script work ?
 

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xcb_dri2_copy_region(3) 					   XCB Requests 					   xcb_dri2_copy_region(3)

NAME
xcb_dri2_copy_region - SYNOPSIS
#include <xcb/dri2.h> Request function xcb_dri2_copy_region_cookie_t xcb_dri2_copy_region(xcb_connection_t *conn, xcb_drawable_t drawable, uint32_t region, uint32_t dest, uint32_t src); Reply datastructure typedef struct xcb_dri2_copy_region_reply_t { uint8_t response_type; uint8_t pad0; uint16_t sequence; uint32_t length; } xcb_dri2_copy_region_reply_t; Reply function xcb_dri2_copy_region_reply_t *xcb_dri2_copy_region_reply(xcb_connection_t *conn, xcb_dri2_copy_region_cookie_t cookie, xcb_generic_error_t **e); REQUEST ARGUMENTS
conn The XCB connection to X11. drawable TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. region TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. dest TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. src TODO: NOT YET DOCUMENTED. REPLY FIELDS
response_type The type of this reply, in this case XCB_DRI2_COPY_REGION. This field is also present in the xcb_generic_reply_t and can be used to tell replies apart from each other. sequence The sequence number of the last request processed by the X11 server. length The length of the reply, in words (a word is 4 bytes). DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
Returns an xcb_dri2_copy_region_cookie_t. Errors have to be handled when calling the reply function xcb_dri2_copy_region_reply. If you want to handle errors in the event loop instead, use xcb_dri2_copy_region_unchecked. See xcb-requests(3) for details. ERRORS
This request does never generate any errors. SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Generated from dri2.xml. Contact xcb@lists.freedesktop.org for corrections and improvements. XCB
2014-06-10 xcb_dri2_copy_region(3)
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